It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

She was also stone deaf in her right ear.

Its usage is mostly restricted to engravings on stone and jewelry, although inscriptions have also been found on bone and wood.

It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.

A stone block from Mehallet el-Kubra also establishes that his maternal grandmother — Tashereniset's mother — was a certain Tjenmutetj.

There was an artificial platform there and this apparent verification of Thom's long alignment hypothesis ( Kintraw was diagnosed as an accurate winter solstice site ) led him to check Thom's geometrical theories at the Cultoon stone circle in Islay, also with a positive result.

The Romans also used cement, which reduced the variation of strength found in natural stone.

This bridge is also historically significant as it is the world's oldest open-spandrel stone segmental arch bridge.

Granite boulders were also taken from the moor and used for stone posts and to a certain extent for building ( such material is known as moorstone ).

Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).

In Ancient Egyptian architecture as early as 2600 BC the architect Imhotep made use of stone columns whose surface was carved to reflect the organic form of bundled reeds ; in later Egyptian architecture faceted cylinders were also common.

Computer controlled music is also found in the performance pieces by the Canadian composer Udo Kasemets such as the Marce ( ntennia ) l Circus C ( ag ) elebrating Duchamp ( 1987 ), a realization of the Marcel Duchamp process piece Erratum Musical using an electric model train to collect a hopper-car of stones to be deposited on a drum wired to an Analog: Digital converter, mapping the stone impacts to a score display ( performed in Toronto by pianist Gordon Monahan during the 1987 Duchamp Centennial ), or his installations and performance works ( e. g. Spectrascapes ) based on his Geo ( sono ) scope ( 1986 ) 15x4-channel computer-controlled audio mixer.

The Chalcolithic ( khalkos " copper " + lithos " stone ") period or Copper Age, also known as the Eneolithic / Æneolithic ( from Latin aeneus " of bronze "), is a phase of the Bronze Age in which the addition of tin to copper to form bronze during smelting remained yet unknown by the metallurgists of the times.

The mouth and estuary of the Congo was now discovered ( perhaps in August 1482 ), and marked by a Padrão, or stone pillar ( still existing, but only in fragments ) erected on Shark Point, attesting the sovereignty of Portugal ; the great river was also ascended for a short distance, and intercourse was opened with the natives of the Bakongo kingdom.

The draugr could also move magically through the earth, swimming through solid stone as does Killer-Hrapp:

Northern style dolmens are above ground with a four sided chamber and a megalithic roof ( also referred to as table type ), while southern style ( usually but not always underground ) are made up of a stone chest or pit covered by a slab.

Apart from overground dolmens, underground burial chambers built with dressed stone slabs have also been discovered in Marayoor.

Though an egg appears to be like the stone of a tomb, a bird hatches from it with life ; similarly, the Easter egg, for Christians, is a reminder that Jesus rose from the grave, and that those who believe will also experience eternal life.

The challenge of drawing a sword from a stone also appears in the Arthurian legends of Galahad, whose achievement of the task indicates that he is destined to find the Holy Grail.

The period from 700, 000 – 300, 000 years ago is also known as the Acheulean, when H. ergaster ( or erectus ) made large stone hand axes out of flint and quartzite, at first quite rough ( Early Acheulian ), later " retouched " by additional, more subtle strikes at the sides of the flakes.

The fact that settlers from Norway also settled in the Faroe Islands is proven by a runestone ( see Sandavágur stone ) found in the village of Sandavágur on Vágoy Island.

The 11th century Ledberg stone in Sweden, similarly to Thorwald's Cross, features a figure with his foot at the mouth of a four-legged beast, and this may also be a depiction of Odin being devoured by Fenrir at Ragnarök.

The latte stone was used as a part of the raised foundation for a magalahi ( matao chief ) house, although they may have also been used for canoe sheds.

A Gaulish man and a Gaulish woman and a Greek man and a Greek woman were buried alive under the Forum Boarium ... They were lowered into a stone vault, which had on a previous occasion also been polluted by human victims, a practice most repulsive to Roman feelings.

* Tsoureki, a traditional Christmas and Easter sweet bread also known as ' Lambropsomo ' ( Easter bread ), flavored with " mahlepi ", the intensely aromatic extract of the stone of the St. Lucie Cherry.

A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.

Even though the stone had been around centuries and was known to both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, both who used the gem for decoration and for playing important parts in their religious ceremonies, any agate of this color from Sicily, once an ancient Greek colony, is called Greek agate.

In the film, the monster is called a Kraken, although it is depicted as a lizard-like creature rather than a squid ; and combining two elements of the myth, Perseus defeats the sea monster by showing it Medusa's face, turning the monster into stone.

The wall consisted of two parapets built with large stone blocks and cemented with an earth mortar called emplekton ( Greek: ἔμπλεκτον ).

Amazonite ( sometimes called " Amazon stone ") is a green variety of microcline feldspar.

In 1824, Joseph Aspdin patented a similar material, which he called Portland cement, because the render made from it was in color similar to the prestigious Portland stone.

The U. S. Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) has very strict regulations as to what can and what cannot be called " synthetic " stone.

This includes special paint treatments such as aging and gilding, as well as simulating the appearance of wood, stone, brick, metal, stained glass -- anything called for by the Production Designer.

When the gods knew that Fenrir was fully bound, they took a cord called Gelgja ( Old Norse " fetter ") hanging from Gleipnir, inserted the cord through a large stone slab called Gjöll ( Old Norse " scream "), and the gods fastened the stone slab deep into the ground.

A gemstone or gem ( also called a precious or semi-precious stone, a fine gem, or jewel ) is a piece of mineral, which, in cut and polished form, is used to make jewelry or other adornments.

A stone can be called " pink " by one lab while another lab calls it " Padparadscha ".

The brain later grew in size, and H. erectus eventually developed a more complex stone tool technology called the Acheulean.

In Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach, citing the authority of a certain ( probably fictional ) Kyot the Provençal, claimed the Grail was a stone ( called lapis exillis ) that fell from Heaven, and had been the sanctuary of the neutral angels who took neither side during Lucifer's rebellion.

A single-use item, the hammer, can destroy stone statues, which frees a flying soldier called a Centurion that will aid the player in boss battles.

He called the stone the ' Babur's Diamond ' at the time, which was called by other names before he seized it from Ibrahim Lodi.

The name has an Indo-European origin ( from karra meaning " stone "), and in antiquity it was called " Carusardius " in Latin.

At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone had been cast, but, alas!

The passage continues with a famous account of an interruption: " At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purpose of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas!

This machete is issued with a 5-inch Bowie knife and a sharpening stone in the scabbard ; collectively called a " jungle kit " ( Conjunto de Selva in Portuguese ); it is manufactured by Indústria de Material Bélico do Brasil ( IMBEL ).

Small stone tools called microliths and retouched bladelets can be found for the first time.

The translation into English of Natural History written by the elder Pliny of Greece shows a few sentences on the subject of a volcanic glass called Obsian, so named from its resemblance to a stone found in Ethiopia by Obsius ( obsiānus lapis ).